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...traditional melodrama the ostensibly weak must triumph over the seemingly invincible. And that usually means a clash between a good woman and an evil man. But this time Dan is the vulnerable one -- in De Palma's provocative term, a "feminized male" -- partly because of his position as head of the family. And his adversary is scarily strong, a masculinized female even in name -- Alex. She is the stalker, the demon, the sexual adventurer...
Today, more than halfway through his five-year term, Duarte is widely perceived as a failure. The war drags on, random killings continue, the government is pockmarked with corruption. Even Duarte's loyalty to the U.S., which this year will supply $700 million in military, economic and disaster aid, has become a political liability. During a visit to the White House last month, Duarte kissed the American flag. Salvadorans viewed the gesture as symbolic of their dependence on American largesse...
...fund shareholders suffered equally when the market splintered. Though the term mutual fund is used to refer to any basket of investments that shareholders own jointly, some bushels contain more perishable ingredients than others. Hardest hit were people who gambled on high-growth funds made up of over-the-counter stocks in small companies. As the market shuddered, many investors quickly dumped such risky stocks and bought into blue-chip issues. Result: even when Wall Street tried to rally, the small stocks were left far behind. The worst performers among the high-growth funds included 44 Wall Street Equity, which...
Over the long term, however, such switching could hurt the profitability of the fund companies, since money-market and bond funds bring in lower sales commissions and management fees than stock funds do. Most fund managers hope that investors, after a period of cooling their nerves, will venture back into the stock funds. Says Edward McVey, senior vice president at Franklin Resources: "As soon as people got over the initial trauma of Black Monday, they were calling up to reverse their redemptions." Michael Lipper, president of Lipper Analytical Securities, is not quite so confident. "The panic is over," he says...
...assertions were not entirely outlandish. Raymond Mabus Jr., a wispy, cocksure state auditor, had spent four years in a zealous crusade against public corruption during his first term in public office. Then, in an iconoclastic campaign for Governor, he railed against the decadence of "old- time politics and the oldtime politicians." Last week, at 39, he was elected one of the nation's youngest Governors and the leader of an awakening movement to free Mississippi from its long-standing image of lethargy and backwardness...